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Legendary horse of Dick Turpin, created by Harrison Ainsworth in the 1834 romance Rookwood (5,4)

Oldest member of cinema’s Marx Brothers, born Leonard Marx in 1887 (5)

Name by which the German Shepherd dog was officially known in Britain until 1977 (8)

Waiting-maid to Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice, courted by Gratiano (7)

Large tropical American evergreen tree (Manilkara zapota) whose latex yields chicle (9)

Radial arrangement of three or more petals, leaves or other organs around a stem (5)

Sweetness designation of dry sparkling wines containing fewer than 12 grams of sugar per litre (4)

Michael ___, author of novels including The Andromeda Strain and Sphere (8)

English river rising at the foot of the Cotswold Hills and flowing approximately 215 miles to the North Sea (6)

Character played by Keanu Reeves in the Matrix film trilogy (3)

1969 Ken Loach film based on a novel by English author Barry Hines (3)

2017 drama film starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay (6)

Republic of SE Africa that includes the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba (8)

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Standard currency unit of South Africa, divided into 100 cents (4)

Clark ___, Oscar-winning star of the 1934 film It Happened One Night (5)

Name by which St Petersburg was officially known from 1924 to 1991 (9)

Historical region and former kingdom of central Europe forming the western part of what is now the Czech Republic (7)

Oval red tropical fruit of the lychee family with soft spines and a slightly acidic taste; Nephelium lappaceum (8)

Fibrous substance obtained from the seed covering of the ceiba (or silk-cotton) tree, used as stuffing for pillows, cushions etc. (5)

‘Pelican State’ of the southern US, bordered by Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas (9)

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James Hilton novel set in the fictional Tibetan utopia of Shangri-La (4,7)

Shrimplike planktonic crustacean of the order Euphausiaceae, eaten by whales etc. (5)

Mount ___, active volcano of E Sicily between the cities of Messina and Catania (4)

and Former president and current president-elect of Chile, taking office in March 2018 (9,6)

Brightest star in the constellation Carina, and the second brightest star in the sky (7)

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Fibrous polysaccharide substance that is the principal component of arthropod exoskeletons and the cell walls of certain fungi (6)

Industrial city of SW Poland formerly called Stalinogrod (8)

Brother of Mary and Martha raised from the dead by Jesus (7)

Second-largest city of Pakistan; capital of the province of Punjab (6)

North American urban or suburban area bounded by (usually) four streets (5)

Werner ___, German director of films including Signs Of Life and Salt And Fire (6)

Louis ___, great-grandson of Queen Victoria who served as the first Governor General of India (11)

Second-largest island of Sweden, separated from the mainland by Kalmar Strait (5)

Small brightly-coloured Central American fish popular in aquariums; Xiphophorus helleri (9)

Window that opens on hinges located at one side (8)

Marsupial of Australia or New Guinea similar to but smaller than a kangaroo; genera Lagorchestes, Petrogale, Protemnodon etc. (7)

City of southern California forming a northern suburb of Los Angeles, incorporated in 1911 (7) See Twin brother of Romulus, founder of Rome (5)

Official language of Pakistan closely related to Hindi; from Persian, ‘camp’ (4)

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